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suggests Zuni ware, but is radically different from modern Zufii 

 and has different symbols, showing, as far as it goes, that settle- 

 ments in which it occurs were made prior to the development of 

 modern Zufii ceramic decorations which were influenced by them. It 

 has a likeness to old Zuni ware, but has a closer resemblance to frag- 

 ments from the Crown Point Ruin, and the Chaco settlements, which 

 is significant. 



Perhaps the most exceptional specimens obtained during the 

 author's trip are two large, black jars (fig. 8), their color recalling 



FIG. 8. Cooking pot, Black Diamond Ranch. 7^/2 by 6 inches. 



Santa Clara ware. The decoration on these jars takes the form of 

 designs on a raised zigzag band meandering about their necks, similar 

 to pottery used by the Navaho Indians. The informant, a reliable 

 white man, claims they are not Navaho work, and showed the locality 

 near a ruined ancient wall where he excavated them. He also reports 

 a portion of a human skeleton found in the same neighborhood which 

 affords good indication that they were mortuary, while the position 

 of the grave would show that they were deposited by the same people 

 who inhabited the room near by. The question is pertinent, however, 



